The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13
MINOR MENTION.

A LAwRENCEBURG correspondent says the
house where Henry Ward Beecher and wife first
went to housekeeping is still standing. They
occupied the second floor, the first being occu-
pied with dry goods store. Mr. Beecher's sal
ary at this time was $500 year, and they supple
meuted this by keeping two three boarders.
The correspondent says: ''Mr. Beecher was
first induced to come to Lawrenceburg and To-
cate by Miss Martha Sawyer, who had heard him
preach in Ohio at the time of his ordination.
There was neither elder nor deacon of the Pres
by terrain Church at Lawrenceburg but
afterwards Mr.. Horace Basset who subsequent
~ became clerk of the United States Court at
Indianapolis was elected an elder During his
two and quarter years at this place Mr.. Beech
er was both sexton and pastor of the church,
part of his duties being to sweep out the church
and keep the lamps we'll filled with oil. His
passionate eminently a success, and while
here he was frequently assisted in his labors by
his father, and while the latter was msre pro
found man, the former drew the largest congre-
cations"
NOTWITHSTANDING the recent great discover
les oil Aatural gas, Findlay, O., holds its own
against all rivals. There are now twenty wells
at that place, all penetrating, at depth of from
LOO to 600 feet, the Trenton limestone. which
seems to be natures gas receiver. From one of
these wells the gas issues with a roar that can
be heard nine miles, and its light casts a shadow
ten miles distant. This we'll has been discharg-
ing for two years and is strong to- day as ever.
One of the small Ter wells supplies three glass
factories with fuel and enough is burning away
| in the air to supply seven more of like dimen-
| sions. Five quarterback jets are used to fur
mace. They furnish heat that can be regulated
with absolute exactness, and the cost is too tri-
| fling to consider Under the natural gas impulse
| Findley is fast becoming an important manu-
featuring center.
SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New Jersey, is a
successful business man and one of the live men
| of the Senate. He thinks we'll Of the press. He
| said to correspondent: II have a son who is
| seventeen years old. He said to me some time
| ago: Father. what do you want me to dor
Said I: My son. want you to become a news
paper man. The newspapers have more influ-
| ence with our time than all other institutions
We hardly ever get bill in Congress out Of
committee and report it to the public but the
| whole argument on both sides has been stated in
| the newspapers. 30, don't want you to belong
to any institution that is behind time'n If the
boy has his fathers appreciation of enterprise
and news gathering he will probably succeed at
| the business.
AN oil-well is not an unmixed blessing to its
ueighbors however it may be to its owners. II
is said that the owner of cheese factory in one
of the northern counties of the State will sus.
tain loss of over S. 900 from an oil strike.
His buildings are located near the oil.well, and
the fumes Of oil and gas have penetrated all the
cheese of last summers dairying, making ii
| worthless. The houses in the vicinity of the
we'll have assumed frog pond green. caused by
the oil spouting up and sprnkling down on
them, and several parties intend suing the com
pany for damages. Perhaps this is natures way
of getting even with men for prying into the
hidden mysteries of the earth.
THE South Bend Times says the cultivation oil
PEPPERMINT has teen introduced on the marsh
lands of st. Joseph county with decidedly sue
cessful results The plant is cultivated for the